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Granular Power Savings Patches Posted For Common "uvcvideo" Linux Webcam Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 01:24
Google engineer Ricardo Ribalda has proposed a set of patches for the common "uvcvideo" kernel driver that supports UVC-compliant web cameras and the like to provide granular power saving support...

Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Compute / OpenCL Performance Looking Great

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 23:39
Now that Linux 6.12 has a fix for the Lunar Lake performance with the ASUS Zenbook I have been using for my Core Ultra 200V series Linux testing as well as there recently being an updated Intel Compute Runtime with Lunar Lake fixes, I have been working on some fresh Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics benchmarks using the very latest upstream open-source code. In today's article is exploring how the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics is performing for OpenCL / GPU compute relative to the prior Meteor Lake Arc Graphics that were already a nice step-up over earlier Intel integrated graphics.

Ubuntu 25.04 Begins Preparations For GIMP 3.0

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 22:00
With GIMP 3.0-RC1 out for testing since earlier this month, the hope is that GIMP 3.0 stable will in fact ship in time for the release of Ubuntu 25.04 next April. The current GIMP 3.0 release candidate is working its way to Debian Unstable and in turn soon should be available via the Ubuntu 25.04 archive...

AMD I3C Controller ACPI Support Added To DesignWare Driver In Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 21:26
The I3C subsystem updates were submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel on Monday and include support for another I3C HCI controller used on AMD systems...

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